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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/weight-loss-drugs-wont-solve-the-obesity-crisis/
There is a weird dislocation between official attitudes to obesity and to Covid 19. With the latter, we were all ordered to change our behaviour overnight, staying at home under pain of stiff fines. With the former, the fashionable view among many in healthcare is to deny any sense of personal responsibility at all. […]
With obesity, official policy merely stokes the problem. On the one hand we have campaign groups pushing for it to be recognised as a disease; on the other we have bans on TV adverts for ‘junk food’; ignoring that what makes you fat is how many calories you consume, not the form they come in. And now we have weight loss drugs, which are about to be handed out on an industrial scale in spite of the serious side effects which are beginning to emerge – including, as revealed in a recent study, the risk of losing lean muscle around the heart.
https://archive.ph/0OBRm
There is a weird dislocation between official attitudes to obesity and to Covid 19. With the latter, we were all ordered to change our behaviour overnight, staying at home under pain of stiff fines. With the former, the fashionable view among many in healthcare is to deny any sense of personal responsibility at all. […]
With obesity, official policy merely stokes the problem. On the one hand we have campaign groups pushing for it to be recognised as a disease; on the other we have bans on TV adverts for ‘junk food’; ignoring that what makes you fat is how many calories you consume, not the form they come in. And now we have weight loss drugs, which are about to be handed out on an industrial scale in spite of the serious side effects which are beginning to emerge – including, as revealed in a recent study, the risk of losing lean muscle around the heart.
https://archive.ph/0OBRm